On-site Access: Accessible by appointment in the Study Room / Genre: animal art / Subject Terms: lion

1. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1788
Materials & Techniques:: Etching with roulette work, third state
Dimensions:: Plate: 9 7/8 x 13 inches (25.1 x 33 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

Creator:: Print made by George Stubbs, 1724–1806
Date:: 1777
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 14 3/4 × 19 inches (37.5 × 48.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Lioness

Creator:: Print made by unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream card
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 13/16 × 4 5/16 inches (14.8 × 11 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of James A. Bergquist

4. Lion Attacking a Stag

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/8 inches (12.7 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. A Lion Standing over a Wounded Leapard

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, pen and black ink and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 × 7 1/8 inches (12.7 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. Old Lion Insulted

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/8 × 6 3/4 inches (18.7 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Lion and Lioness Attacking a Steer

Creator:: Samuel Howitt, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Brown wash, gray wash, black wash, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 3/8 × 14 1/8 inches (26.4 × 35.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Study of a Lion and Study of a Lioness' Head

Creator:: John Frederick Lewis, 1804–1876
Date:: ca. 1820
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, black chalk, and white chalk on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 10 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches (27 x 37.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. A Lion

Creator:: Thomas William Wood, 1855–1872
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Watercolor, graphite, and gouache on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 7/8 × 13 3/4 inches (25.1 × 34.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The Ass and the Sick Lion

Creator:: Print made by John Doyle ('H.B.'), 1797–1868
Date:: 1849
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph in tan and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 11/16 x 17 3/16 inches (29.7 x 43.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. London Zoo

Creator:: Bill Leeson, born 1934
Date:: 1965
Materials & Techniques:: Chromolithograph
Dimensions:: Sheet: 38 7/8 x 24 3/4 inches (98.7 x 62.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Henry S. Hacker, Yale BA 1965

12. Studies of a Sleeping Lion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Charcoal, graphite, and red chalk on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 13/16 × 8 15/16 inches (17.3 × 22.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Head of a Male Lion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Black chalk, red chalk, and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 5 15/16 inches (16.5 × 15.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Lion and Snake

Creator:: Print made by Samuel William Reynolds, 1773–1835
Date:: 1799
Materials & Techniques:: Mezzotint, etching, and roulette on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 19 1/4 × 24 inches (48.9 × 61 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Study of a Lion, Resting

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Red chalk and graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 12 9/16 inches (20.5 × 31.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. Study of a Lion

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 6 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (16.5 × 23.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. Horse and Rider being Attacked by a Lion

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 4 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (11.4 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. The British Lion

Creator:: Alvin Langdon Coburn, 1882–1966
Date:: 1909
Materials & Techniques:: Photogravure on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 3/4 inches (21.6 × 17.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

19. A Lion and His Mate

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite, brown wash and gray wash on thick, rough, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 3/4 × 15 inches (24.8 × 38.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. Study of a Lion

Creator:: Sawrey Gilpin, 1733–1807
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 5 1/8 × 7 1/8 inches (13 × 18.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Title Page: The Naturalist Library: Mammalia. Introduction. Volume: 1:13

Creator:: Charles Hamilton Smith, 1776–1859
Date:: ca. 1837
Materials & Techniques:: Pen and gray ink, gray wash and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 7 3/4 × 5 3/4 inches (19.7 × 14.6 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

22. A Lion

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 1/2 × 11 7/8 inches (24.1 × 30.2 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A Lion

Creator:: James Sowerby, 1756–1822
Date:: undated
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and watercolor on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 3 3/4 × 4 3/4 inches (9.5 × 12.1 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Cave of the Golden Calf: City Street with Omnibus

Creator:: Spencer Frederick Gore, 1878–1914
Date:: 1912
Materials & Techniques:: Graphite and pen and black ink on medium, slightly textured, beige wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 12 x 10 3/4 inches (30.5 x 27.3 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Frederick Gore

25. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

Creator:: George Siegmund Facius, 1750–1804
Date:: 1782
Materials & Techniques:: Stipple engraving on thick, rough, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 25 1/8 × 18 1/4 inches (63.8 × 46.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Head of a Lion

Creator:: unknown artist
Date:: 1756
Materials & Techniques:: Etching on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 8 9/16 x 7 1/4 inches (21.7 x 18.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. The Empire Needs Men!

Creator:: Print made by Arthur Wardle, 1864–1949
Date:: 1915
Materials & Techniques:: Lithograph on medium, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Frame: 30 3/4 × 20 3/4 inches (78.1 × 52.7 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David Alan Richards, Yale BA 1967, JD 1972

28. Lion, in Zoo

Creator:: Gambier Bolton, 1854–1928
Date:: ca. 1885
Materials & Techniques:: Carbon print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 5/8 × 11 5/8 inches (24.4 × 29.5 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

29. Lion

Creator:: Henry Dixon, 1820–1893
Date:: 1880s
Materials & Techniques:: Gelatin silver print on thin, smooth, cream wove paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 9 × 11 3/8 inches (22.9 × 28.9 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Joy of Giving Something, Inc.

30. An Abyssinian Breakfast

Creator:: Print made by Isaac Cruikshank, 1764–1811
Date:: 1791
Materials & Techniques:: Etching and sitpple engraving, hand-colored on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
Dimensions:: Sheet: 11 3/16 × 13 15/16 inches (28.4 × 35.4 cm)
Collection:: Prints and Drawings
Credit Line:: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

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1. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

2. A Horse Affrighted by a Lion

3. Lioness

4. Lion Attacking a Stag

5. A Lion Standing over a Wounded Leapard

6. Old Lion Insulted

7. Lion and Lioness Attacking a Steer

8. Study of a Lion and Study of a Lioness' Head

9. A Lion

10. The Ass and the Sick Lion

11. London Zoo

12. Studies of a Sleeping Lion

13. Head of a Male Lion

14. Lion and Snake

15. Study of a Lion, Resting

16. Study of a Lion

17. Horse and Rider being Attacked by a Lion

18. The British Lion

19. A Lion and His Mate

20. Study of a Lion

21. Title Page: The Naturalist Library: Mammalia. Introduction. Volume: 1:13

22. A Lion

23. A Lion

24. Cave of the Golden Calf: City Street with Omnibus

25. West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford: The Virtues - Fortitude

26. Head of a Lion

27. The Empire Needs Men!

28. Lion, in Zoo

29. Lion

30. An Abyssinian Breakfast